Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet